Quotes About Poverty

To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

I made a decision that whether or not I was going to make under the national poverty level wasn't going to play a part in whether or not I was an actor. That's what I do.

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.

The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.

The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.

My mission is to eradicate poverty.

Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

I fight for the environment because we only have one planet, but I see how the environment affects poverty and how the environment affects women around the world.

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system.